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A morning paper review leaves me with two questions:
* Is there any way to put the so-called city of Alexander out of existence? Arkansas Democrat-Gazette federal beat reporter Linda Satter's thorough reporting on a lawsuit over racial profiling by the so-called city's so-called police force calls for something more than a big verdict in favor of the untold number of Hispanics stopped for dangling air fresheners in their cars. (This to fatten the so-called city's treasury.)
What is that treasury for? To hire a police chief, assistant chief, four full-time officers and seven part-time officers. That's 13 paid slots for a so-called city with 600 residents down at the Saline-Pulaski line. At that rate, Little Rock could have 3,500 patrol officers.
The legislature, somebody, needs to look at this. (Wrightsville, too, while they're at it.)
* I didn't turn on TV last night to watch the Pulaski Quorum Court approve a 4 percent bonus for themselves and other county employees. It was a done deal. The pending question is Quorum Court pay raises for next year.
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Likewise! Yesterday at a restoreative justice meeting over at the bar, I was informed that in the formation of new operations, the first thing to look for is the financial incentives. In hosptial and prison care, the unions (I guess formal as well as informal) get together and run the bill by the county judge and legislativve delegation for approval. The only folks getting short changed are the citiizens and visitors to our country, if not the very fabric of what makes our form of governance so interesting. Check the bed to find the history of who was close to each other!
Get my coon dogs ready!
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October 28, 2009 06:40 AM
re: Hispanic air fresheners in Alexander -- there was a story on NPR yesterday around 5:30 about the city of Dallas and its police who made a habit of ticketing Hispanic drivers for not speaking English. The story yesterday was about the city's agreement to void the tickets and not get caught doing that again.
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October 28, 2009 08:38 AM
To be fair, my sister who is white and was 18 or so at the time was pulled over in the Saline county area with the reason being that he had a school parking tag hanging down from the mirror. I don't believe it was in Alexander though, it was most likely a Saline County Sheriff's deputy.
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October 28, 2009 09:28 AM